The Australian Open attracts one of the most competitive line-ups in the world and I’m looking forward to putting the heat on some of my old on-court rivals.

I'm the underdog, but know what I'm capable of.

I have nothing to prove to anyone. I only play for myself.

Up a set and 2-0 it's definitely a situation where a little match practice would've helped, so I'm disappointed but think I can take some positives from the first set and the start of the second.

In the end we are all sacked and it's always awful. It is as inevitable as death following life. If you are elevated there comes a day when you are demoted. Even Prime Ministers.

Most of the time I meet my trainer at the gym and we do a lot of everything: weights circuit with cardio, football drills, sprinting with weights on the treadmill.

By connecting with the present we turn our attention inward, away from all the chaos and activity, and experience our eternal, unbounded nature.

Customers don't care how much time something takes to build. They care only if it serves their needs.

The history of psychiatry rewrites itself so often that it almost resembles the self-serving chronicles of a totalitarian and slightly paranoid regime.

I don't know if I'm addicted to fame; fame is more of an unpleasant circumstance of an addiction to creativity.

Don't the people you're around shape the music, is that what you're saying? Everything does.

You have to be vigilant about keeping your own fire alive.

An entrepreneur is someone who dares to dream the dreams and is foolish enough to try to make those dreams come true.

There is the process of enlarging a watercolour, which actually amounts to copying its good points and improving its bad ones, and is interesting proportionately as the latter increase.